Annual Meetings

2017 Annual Meeting

The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society was held on Friday, January 27, 2017, at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York City. The meeting began at 4:00 p.m. and concluded with:

“A Bibliographical Approach to Information: Afterthoughts on Too Much to Know”

by Ann Blair

Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University

Before the meeting, between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., papers from BSA’s New Scholars Program were given by:

Michaël Roy (Malkin New Scholar)

Université Paris Nanterre

“The Vanishing Slave: Publishing the Narative of Charles Ball, from Slavery in the United States (1836) to Fifty Years in Chains (1858)”

Marissa Nicosia (Pantzer New Scholar)

Penn State Abbington

“Printing as Revival: Making Playbooks in the 1650’s”

Meghan Peiser

University of Missouri

“Reading the Review Periodical in the Eighteenth Century”

2016 Annual Meeting

The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society was held on Friday, January 29, 2016, at The Cosmopolitan Club, 122 East 66th Street, New York City. The meeting began at 4:00 p.m. and concluded with:

Before the meeting, between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., papers from BSA’s New Scholars Program were given by:

Chris J. Young (Pantzer New Scholar)

University of Toronto

“The Collation Game: Identifying the Bibliographic Variances Between The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Remastered”

Hannah Marcus

Stanford University

“License to Read: Licit Reading of Prohibited Books in Early Modern Italy”

Laura Forsberg

Harvard University

“Multum in Parvo: The Nineteenth-Century Miniature Book”

2015 Annual Meeting

The 2015 annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society took place on Friday, 23 January, 2015, at the Cosmopolitan Club, 122 East 66th Street, New York City. The meeting began at 4:00 P.M. and concluded with:

“The Medium is the Message: Printing the Classics, from Hand Press to the Computer Age”

by Craig Kallendorf

Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas A & M University and the author of Vergil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance

Before the meeting, between 2:00 and 4:00 P.M., papers from BSA’s New Scholars Program were given by:

Aaron T. Pratt (Pantzer New Scholar)

Yale University

“Cheap Print, Playbooks, and the Advent of English Literature”

Jeffrey Makala (Malkin New Scholar)

University of South Carolina

“Print on Demand: Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century America”

Huub van der Linden

University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands

“Printing Music in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy: Workshop Practices in the Silvani Firm in Bologna”